The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne
The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne
🎙 Where fashion meets its conscience—and gets a glow-up.
Welcome to The Ethical Stitch, the unapologetically bold podcast unraveling the truth behind what we wear—and how it's made. Hosted by fashion sustainability expert and industry insider Michelle Alleyne, this weekly series exposes the hidden cost of fast fashion while spotlighting the changemakers, designers, and disruptors who are reshaping style with purpose.
From her front-row seat as a professor at Parsons and FIT to the factory floors of global production hubs, Michelle brings two decades of unfiltered insight, real talk, and solution-focused conversations. Whether you're a curious consumer or a fashion industry insider, this podcast is your go-to for smarter style choices, ethical design thinking, and jaw-dropping truths the labels won't tell you.
🔥 Expect hot takes like:
— “No more polyester.”
— “Stop calling it vegan leather.”
— “Why aren’t your fave designers doing better?”
Plus: actionable tips, behind-the-scenes stories, and interviews with the innovators making sustainability sexy.
If you care about the planet and your closet, pull up a chair.
New episodes drop every week. Follow @michellealleyneofficial and visit michellealleyne.com to learn more.
Because in the future of fashion, ethics aren’t optional—they’re iconic.
The Ethical Stitch with Michelle Alleyne
Latest Episodes
America Wore This: 250 Years of Style, Labor, Waste, and Repair
What if the story of America could be read through what we wore?In this special July 4th episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne reflects on America’s 250th birthday by looking at fashion not just as style, but as hist...
When The Future Washes Ashore
What if the future of sustainable design was not found in a lab, but washed ashore?In this solo episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne reflects on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, where seeing large amounts of seaweed al...
The Tool Is Not the Talent: Fashion AI with Mandisa Foster of Raspberry AI
What if artificial intelligence was not here to replace fashion creatives, but to give them a faster, clearer, and more powerful way to bring their ideas to life?In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down ...
Climate, AI, and the Fight to Stay Human with Mikaela Ringquist
What if the biggest question about artificial intelligence is not whether it will replace us, but whether it can help us become more responsible humans?In this episode of The Ethical Stitch, Michelle Alleyne sits down with Mikae...
